Word: sosa
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Only Lucy Nichols is no longer a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, and the person she and Jack are retrieving is not dead. Amelita Sosa has in fact been smuggled by Lucy out of Nicaragua, footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras...
...business, the number of companies interested in selling to Hispanics "is growing by leaps and bounds," says Howell Boyd, executive vice president of Sosa & Associates, a Hispanic-owned ad agency in San Antonio that has picked up such major accounts as Anheuser-Busch and Westinghouse. In Los Angeles, Villanueva reports that more than 30% of KMEX'S advertising revenue comes from national-brand companies. Says he: "No longer is the attitude among advertisers 'Why don't you learn English...
That was 1960, when Kennedy was a journalist in San Juan and the future Nobel prizewinner was a visiting teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. The island was also where Kennedy met Dana Sosa, a gifted dancer-singer who forsook the stage to raise three children and help her husband buy time to write during the lean years...
...plenty of complaints about their bankers. Their major concern was about the fees and extra interest that American banks are charging them on new and rescheduled loans. Representatives noted that ailing U.S. firms like International Harvester received much more favorable terms than they. Said Venezuelan Finance Minister Arturo Sosa: "It is only sensible to ask whether the conditions being offered to our countries are comparable to those secured by troubled enterprises in industrial nations." A working paper presented to the session estimated that Latin borrowers must pay on average a stiff three percentage points above the U.S. prime rate...
...junta issued its proposals, an international diplomatic storm continued to swirl over Argentina as a result of the discovery of some 1,500 unidentified bodies in unmarked burial sites across the country. The furor was ignited after an Argentine couple discovered the body of their son, Miguel Angel Sosa, in one of the cemetery plots. Subsequent investigations revealed that the corpses were stacked as many as six deep in unmarked graves, and that numerous victims had been killed with a single bullet in the head. Most of the bodies are still unidentified, but there is little doubt...